TY - BOOK AU - Britton,Karla TI - Constructing the ineffable: contemporary sacred architecture SN - 9780300170375 AV - NA4600 .C62 2010 U1 - 726 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New Haven, Conn. PB - Yale School of Architecture, Distributed by Yale University Press KW - Religious architecture KW - Architecture, Modern KW - 21st century KW - Architecture and society KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue : the case for sacred architecture; Karla Cavarra Britton --; The earth, the temple and today; Vincent Scully --; Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture; Kartsten Harries --; Architecture, memory and the sacred; Miroslav Volf --; Revealing concealment; Mark C. Taylor --; Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small; Emilie M. Townes --; Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit; Thomas H. Beeby --; The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando; Kenneth Frampton --; Temples of light; Diana Eck --; Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space; Jaime Lara --; The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project; Stanley Tigerman --; Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome; Richard Meier --; Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral; Rafael Moneo --; Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage; Fariborz Sahba --; Theistic--polytheistic--non-theistic; Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) --; The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred; Moshe Safdie -- Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century?; Peter Eisenman --; The contemporary mosque; Zaha Hadid --; Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today; Paul Goldberger ER -